January 2009

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2009 will see improvement in the sport – BFA boss, Keith O’Jeer

Jan 26, 2009 knews Sports Comments Off on 2009 will see improvement in the sport – BFA boss, Keith O’Jeer

Discipline and stronger youth focus, lead areas By Franklin Wilson While 2008 brought with it its fair share of challenges, Berbice Football Association (BFA) President Keith O’Jeer proudly...

La Rose ready to play pivotal role for WI team

Jan 26, 2009 knews Sports Comments Off on La Rose ready to play pivotal role for WI team

– much healthier now after knee injury By Rawle Welch Guyana and West Indies selectee Albert La Rose told Kaieteur Sport yesterday that he expects to be fully fit for the IRB’s Sevens...

Horatio, Morgan wins respective categories

Jan 26, 2009 knews Sports Comments Off on Horatio, Morgan wins respective categories

AAG Cross–Country Race National athletes, Dennis Horatio and Alika Morgan won the male and female categories respectively yesterday when the Athletics Association of Guyana (AAG) held its...

D’Andrade places seventh in Trinidad Marathon

Jan 26, 2009 knews Sports Comments Off on D’Andrade places seventh in Trinidad Marathon

– bettered last year’s performance, misses record By Edison Jefford In a star–studded field of regional and international athletes, local distance champ, Lionel D’Andrade finished seventh...

Panday not keen on extending cricket administration career

Jan 26, 2009 knews Sports Comments Off on Panday not keen on extending cricket administration career

Promises to still help areas which supported him for elections After losing 15-12 to Chetram Singh in the race for the Guyana Cricket Board Presidency yesterday, Bish Panday admitted that he was...

Only 11% of Guyanese babies are breast fed – UNICEF

Jan 26, 2009 knews News Comments Off on Only 11% of Guyanese babies are breast fed – UNICEF

Representative for the United Nations Children Fund (UNICEF), Johannes Wedenig, has noted that only 11 percent of children under six months of age are exclusively breastfed in Guyana, as there is a...

Drug rehab programmes to be established in Berbice

Jan 26, 2009 knews News Comments Off on Drug rehab programmes to be established in Berbice

Rehabilitation programmes for substance abusers will be established at the New Amsterdam, Port Mourant and Skeldon Hospitals during the course of next month. Health Minister Dr. Leslie Ramsammy, at a...

Cattle wreak havoc on rice crop

Jan 26, 2009 knews News Comments Off on Cattle wreak havoc on rice crop

BENGAL, CORENTYNE — As cattle continue to wreak havoc with the rice crop in some cultivated areas, the President of the Guyana Rice Producers Association, Leekha Rambrich, is appealing to...

Broadcasting of the sittings of the National Assembly is critical to deepening democracy

Jan 26, 2009 knews Letters Comments Off on Broadcasting of the sittings of the National Assembly is critical to deepening democracy

Dear Editor, The reasons advanced by the Government for denying Guyanese the opportunity to witness live unedited proceedings in the Parliament are far from satisfactory. The motion brought by the...

Region Six reviews 2008 work programme

Jan 26, 2009 knews News Comments Off on Region Six reviews 2008 work programme

NEW AMSTERDAM, BERBICE – Region Six Chairman, Zulfikar Mustapha, is optimistic that 2009 would be the year to unwrap the potential of East Berbice/Corentyne. He is optimistic that the opening...

The character of the GHRA is exposed in its posturing

Jan 26, 2009 knews Letters Comments Off on The character of the GHRA is exposed in its posturing

Dear Editor, It is not surprising to have seen a statement by the Guyana Human Rights Association (GHRA) regarding the state of preparedness and several null allegations against the Government and...

Robert Corbin is a tried and tested soldier

Jan 26, 2009 knews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on Robert Corbin is a tried and tested soldier

I have not written anything about the developments within the PNCR, because there was nothing to write about. Unlike many who are of the view that the PNCR is withering away because of the departure...

Guyana’s sugar industry set for take-off with new management changes

Jan 26, 2009 knews Letters Comments Off on Guyana’s sugar industry set for take-off with new management changes

Dear Editor, Everyone is talking about what is happening in the sugar industry, and even moreso, the son of the late Dr. Jagan, Cheddi (Joey) Jagan Jr., in a recent letter in the SN, on 24th January,...

Postal services to return to Paramakatoi

Jan 26, 2009 knews News Comments Off on Postal services to return to Paramakatoi

The residents of Paramakatoi have reason to celebrate: reports reaching Kaieteur News have said that the Guyana Post Office (GPO) will be resuming service to Paramakatoi shortly. For unexplained...

Suspect’s fingerprints found in murdered pensioner’s home

Jan 26, 2009 knews News Comments Off on Suspect’s fingerprints found in murdered pensioner’s home

– charges likely Fingerprints found in the home of the late Hector Marshall appear to link a prime suspect to the murder of that South Ruimveldt pensioner. Kaieteur News understands that the...

Vital information on soil irrigation for rice farmers

Jan 26, 2009 knews Letters Comments Off on Vital information on soil irrigation for rice farmers

Dear Editor, Please permit me to comment on an article entitled “Farmers requesting irrigation water despite high water level”, Guyana Chronicle, January 24th 2009. Although average...

This is a national scandal that should scare all citizens

Jan 26, 2009 knews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on This is a national scandal that should scare all citizens

What I am about to write on I have incontrovertible proof of. I am writing on a national scandal that should galvanize the Government of Guyana to act with immediate haste. This disgrace should scare...

SPEAK THE SPEECH

Jan 26, 2009 knews Features / Columnists, Tony Deyal column Comments Off on SPEAK THE SPEECH

Hamlet: Speak the speech I pray you as I pronounced it to you,/ trippingly on the tongue;/… Be not too tame neither, but let your own discretion be your/ tutor. Suit the action to the word, the...

A tribute to two heroes

Jan 26, 2009 knews Letters Comments Off on A tribute to two heroes

Dear Editor The recent passing to the great beyond of two very endearing elders of the Muslim community in Guyana heralds a bitter-sweet tribute on their behalf. Ayube Hamid and Shafeeq Khan were...

59-year-old nabbed with cocaine at airport

Jan 26, 2009 knews News Comments Off on 59-year-old nabbed with cocaine at airport

By Latoya Giles A fifty-nine-year-old citizen of the United States of America is presently in police custody after a quantity of cocaine was discovered in her hand luggage. The incident occurred at...

Deliberations at Davos

Jan 26, 2009 knews Editorial Comments Off on Deliberations at Davos

One has to hand it to President Jagdeo; he’s always on the go trying to drum up support for Guyana’s development — economic or otherwise. While there are no official figures, we are sure that...

Canadian visa scam…More victims surface

Jan 25, 2009 knews News Comments Off on Canadian visa scam…More victims surface

“I gat a contact in the High Commissioner Office in Trinidad” – Con man tells them As news of a big Canadian visa racket spreads, more Guyanese have come forward to disclose how...

BK International denies contaminating GPL $40M fuel

Jan 25, 2009 knews News Comments Off on BK International denies contaminating GPL $40M fuel

Yesterday, in response to an article that appeared in that day’s issue of Kaieteur News, BK International Inc. released a press statement to the media contending that it is too early to lay the...

Owner, wife, grand kids perish in N/A fire

Jan 25, 2009 knews News Comments Off on Owner, wife, grand kids perish in N/A fire

By Melissa Johnson CHARLOTTE STREET, NEW AMSTERDAM – Well known businessman Ivor Persaud; his wife, Parbattie Persaud, and two grandchildren were burnt to death in an early morning fire at...

Ramsammy to call in police on bogus nursing school

Jan 25, 2009 knews News Comments Off on Ramsammy to call in police on bogus nursing school

By Sharmain Cornette The Ministry of Health is prepared to take legal action against a ‘so called’ professional nursing school which, according to complaints, may be swindling unsuspecting...

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